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On Mar 26, 9:33 pm, "Mark" <bongof...@verizon.net> wrote:
> Hey There
>
> Well I'm back to D2/LoD again after a foray into, gasp, other games.
>
> Played Travian for a while. A very fun game. But it's quite insidious. It
> starts off as simple and quite slow, but it grows and takes up more and more
> of your time. Till it pushes out all your other gaming time and starts
> taking time away from real world activities. I was running an alliance with
> almost 200 members. We were late starters to the world so we were far out
> classed by the major powers of the world. But the world was so evenly
> divided that we were in a power position. I ended up spending the vast
> majority of my time running the alliance and playing world politics, and
> didn't have time to actually play my cities and properly manage my armies.
> And RL was being neglected. So I transferred my account to someone else in
> the alliance and walked away clod turkey. Overall it was a VERY good time,
> but just too much of a time commitment to continue.
>
> I then moved to Civilization III. An old game, but I had never tried the Civ
> series. It is another good game. A turn based simulation rather than a Real
> Time Simulation like Starcraft/Warcraft. But it's more diplomacy and
> culturally driven than a pure wargame, so it's not exactly my cup of tea. I
> like a more hardcore wargame. But I still enjoy it. I just play a Communist
> government and wage constant war.
>
> So I came back to a comfortable old friend. And I was quite happily amazed
> to see that I could recover all my expired characters. Something new? It's
> wonderful because I had just re-established the basics in the new ladder
> before I wandered off. I have a MF Sorc to run Hell Mephy for items, a
> Trapper to run Keys, a Skellimancer to turn Keys into Organs, a Smiter to
> hunt Clones and run UT, and the usual slaves; Chanter and BO Barb. So with
> all the basics I get to come back and play fun toons. So I started a Bowler.
> I played one with Spook and Cinna last ladder, and he was a blast, so I want
> to try to Guardian one now. I blasted him through Normal and started to
> actually play him in NM. A1 went well, no real problems. The little monsters
> take multiple hits from my Boulders and generally die with 1 or 2. Bigger
> monsters take more, but with a merc and Grizzly to keep them busy it's no
> problem. I'm sure by late NM early Hell it's going to get tough, but that's
> what I'm looking for.
>
> So it's good to be back to D2/LoD, and it's good to see most of the usual
> suspects still posting here. If anyone is playing EHCL, give me a yell and
> I'll keep an eye out for you. I've run into Art a few times already.
>
> Regards-
> Mark
> Bongo Fury

BONGO!!!

Okay so on the course of your journeys through other games when are
you going to peruse through the one I and my wife and Nik, yes Nik,
are playing.

Nik is running dungeons with me and my wife.

There is still a possibility that nobody from D2 has played in here
with Nik other than my wife and I.

100 free cracked sashes in a Horadric cube to the first one who does.

And I'm not sure how you are running into Art, he is over in my neck
of the woods a lot. Well maybe he has two PCs up and running next to
each other and has figured out a lefty/righty procedure for running
Nilly in D2 and farming Primal Earth in WoW.

Hey great to see you!

OH! OH! OH!

Orion